Good morning,
The
Lord told Daniel that the time of the end will be marked by “Many who
will go here and there to increase knowledge.”(Dan. 12:4) Today, thanks
to the computer, we can get basic or even detailed information on
almost any topic just by entering our word or topic, and in a few
clicks, we have the information right in front of us. We do face the
problem of whether the information is accurate or based on lies, but we
can still claim that we know the truth because “someone said so.” This
may be a new problem to us, but it has been in place since the Garden of
Eden. When Jesus was here 2000 years ago he faced all kinds of charges
that the information that he was giving them was just a bunch of lies.
To them, Jesus was a nobody carpenter from a bad part of the country
and from a town with a bad reputation. Since Jesus hadn’t been to the
right schools and wasn’t saying the same things their experts taught, he
had to be wrong.
Jesus had the perfect defense. The author of
what he taught was God, his father. Jesus was sent by God to tell them
the truths he gave them. Jesus’ message wasn’t his own. The motive
behind what Jesus was teaching was to communicate God’s truth exactly
like God meant it to be taught. The Devil has his translation of God’s
truth, the ungodly teachers have their various versions of God’s truth
and Jesus’ followers have theirs as well. It’s true that we are all
working with the same holy truth, The Bible, but how we share that truth
makes all the difference in the world what people hear. I am amazed by
how many versions of biblical truth that I hear coming from the people
around me. Jesus pointed out that any time a person comes to the Bible
with the motive of teaching their own ideas of what it says, they are in
fact stealing the truth from God and become the author of the
information they are sharing. It’s easy for even the most mature
believers to share their opinions of what is written as the real truth
when what they are actually sharing isn’t clearly supported by the rest
of God’s truth. May God help us to be deeply concerned for God’s honor
enough to pray about and carefully prepare what we teach so that he gets
the honor, not us.
John 7:16 So Jesus told them, “My message is not my own; it comes from God who sent me.
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Those who speak for themselves want glory only for themselves, but a
person who seeks to honor the one who sent him speaks truth, not lies.
Roy Wisner
